The superintelligence automatically controls all computers connected to the Internet. Many of them can create robotic bodies.
It also automatically controls all current robotic bodies (either because they’re connected to a computer that’s connected to the Internet, or because there is some data path from those computers to the bodies).
By extension, it controls all companies. Including those that [infohazard], etc.
(Edit: It also controls all governments, and everything any government can do.)
It can bribe, threaten or simply pay anyone to do anything a person can be threatened, bribed or paid to do. It can chain plans in this way—the first person doesn’t need to know they’re a part of a bigger plan, and their action will appear harmless to them (or even beneficial).
I’m not sure there is anything the superintelligence couldn’t do.
The operator in the charge of the shutdown button can be killed, he can be framed to be arrested, blackmailed into not pressing it, the AI can talk itself out of the box, it can pay someone to kill the operator, etc., etc.
Usually, it’s the failure of imagination of that person to conceive of how something could be possible. The last person I talked to gave me an example with how it would be impossible for Stephen Hawking to control his cat—a problem I find conceivably doable (in S.H.’s place), Hawking, I suspect, would find it only moderately difficult, and the superintelligence very easy.
The superintelligence automatically controls all computers connected to the Internet. Many of them can create robotic bodies.
It also automatically controls all current robotic bodies (either because they’re connected to a computer that’s connected to the Internet, or because there is some data path from those computers to the bodies).
By extension, it controls all companies. Including those that [infohazard], etc.
(Edit: It also controls all governments, and everything any government can do.)
It can bribe, threaten or simply pay anyone to do anything a person can be threatened, bribed or paid to do. It can chain plans in this way—the first person doesn’t need to know they’re a part of a bigger plan, and their action will appear harmless to them (or even beneficial).
I’m not sure there is anything the superintelligence couldn’t do.
The operator in the charge of the shutdown button can be killed, he can be framed to be arrested, blackmailed into not pressing it, the AI can talk itself out of the box, it can pay someone to kill the operator, etc., etc.
Usually, it’s the failure of imagination of that person to conceive of how something could be possible. The last person I talked to gave me an example with how it would be impossible for Stephen Hawking to control his cat—a problem I find conceivably doable (in S.H.’s place), Hawking, I suspect, would find it only moderately difficult, and the superintelligence very easy.